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OGRE is a game designed and published by Steve Jackson. Wikipedia describes OGRE as “an asymmetric-forces hex-map game set in the late 21st Century pitting one player’s giant unmanned robot tank against the other player’s headquarters defended by a mixture of conventional tanks, infantry and artillery.” OGRE was first published in 1977 and I have been playing it off and on since 1980. The game itself is apparently out of print, but you can piece together most of what you need to play with free resources online. The majority of the back story to the game is found in a vignette by Steve Jackson. OGRE lite [pdf] is a condensed version of the rules. Design your own hex map with the OGRE Map Editor, or base your maps on the original maps. Make your own counters, or use some fan-made counters. Steve Jackson Games offers a number of OGRE items for sale and links to a number of OGRE resources. There are one or two especially good fan sites that aren’t listed at Steve Jackson’s site. OGRE can be played by e-mail. Here’s a note of thanks to Steve Jackson for thirty years of OGRE.